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Best Free Themes For WordPress

deerawan — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:51:29 +0000

No doubt that wordpress is very popular blogging platform now. One of the best features from WordPress is you can use a lot of different wordpress themes available on internet. Some free and some commercial. For getting free wordpress themes, WordPress has its own official themes repository. All of these themes are free. But you can also get some themes from other site.

Every WordPress theme is unique and can be characterized based on

1. Layout

You can use 3-layout, 2-layout or even 1-layout theme depends on what information you like to put in. For 2-layout, you can choose left sidebar or right sidebar.

2. Color

Some themes come with dominant color. It could be dominated by green, yellow, brown, blue or two colors combination and three colors combination.

3. Widget

Almost wordpress themes today support widget feature. It means that you can many widget into your used wordpress theme. The location of widget is differ depends on theme. Some theme can allow you to put widget on bottom area or top area.

4. Internationalization

Not many wordpress themes support this feature. With internationalization feature, you can switch the current language (English) into your language (if it is supported).

5. Custom Header and Custom Background

WordPress 3.0 started to allow user to change the header and the background of theme they are using. So, themes become more flexible to be changed on your own. These two features become what-a-must-have option to be created for theme developers.

6. Other feature

Like Cufon font or custom font, theme options (you can configure extra options for the theme), color scheme (switch to different color) are example for other wordpress feature.

Not all free themes are bad. Some of free themes also as good as the commercial ones. So, pick the best free one is better for you. Even, several WordPress web hosts also give you a special theme.

WordPress Tutorial: Simple Steps to Add Alexa Rank Widget

deerawan — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:36:08 +0000

Hello everyone. In this post, I would like to share simple steps to add Alexa rank widget into your wordpress blog. Alexa rank is common indicator to see how popular your website is. The smallest alexa rank means that your website popularity is high. In other words, your website gets high traffic rank. One way to obtain Alexa rank smaller is by putting Alexa widget on your website. We are going to do it in wordpress now. Let’s follow the steps below

1. Go to Alexa website

2. Choose “For Site Owners” menu

3. Choose “Get Traffic Widgets”

Steps 1 - 3

4. Go to section “Alexa Site Stats Button” or “Alexa Traffic Rank Button”

5. Enter your website address

6. Choose “Build Widget”

Steps 4 - 6

7. There are three size of widget. In this step, we take Button (120 x 95)

8. Copy the script (CTRL + C)

Steps 7 - 8

9. Go to your wordpress admin

10. Choose Appearance -> Widgets

11. Drag Text Widget to your sidebar

Steps 9 - 11

12. Paste your Alexa script into this widget and give it a title

Step 12

13. Voila! You got your Alexa Rank shown up

Conclusion
Hope this simple tutorial will help you to add Alexa widget on your website or wordpress blog. FYI, Alexa is one important aspect for your website value instead of page rank. You may also check wordpress web hosting provider suitable for your web development projects.

WPRex: Free WordPress Themes Gallery

deerawan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:28:59 +0000

If you have a wordpress (wp) blog, you must use a good wp themes to make your blog more friendly and looks beautiful. You can find top and good quality wordpress themes on wprex.com. There are 6968 themes that you can choose, Wow! You can find your themes by choosing from theme specifications like 1 column, 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns, left sidebar, right sidebar, adsense ready, fixed width, rounded corners, Options Page, No Image and even Widget Ready. You can also specify from the colors of the theme itself (green, blue, yellow, etc) and even from popular keywords (animals, wedding, business, casino, fashion, flower, food, etc).

Before downloading themes from wprex, you can see a preview of them. What a very useful feature. Wprex also provide you with search box at top of page. You can type your search keyword to find your themes. Wprex is always updated. You can see many new themes available each day. You must notice that all the themes on wprex are released under GBL License. It means that you can use it free but you can’t sell them and you can’t remove/change the links given in the footer to appreciate the theme author.

wprex main page

If you are a wordpress theme developer, you can submit your theme to wprex. It is free to promote your themes here. You just need to fill some information about your theme such as description, preview/demo url, screenshots, tag, etc. Hope this information is useful to help you find free good quality wordpress themes.

[Updated] Free WordPress Theme: Deerawan – Cloudy 1.4

deerawan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:38:51 +0000

Hello friends,

I recently updated my wordpress theme, deerawan-cloudy. You will be amazed with lot of features that come with it. Lets see

Two Color Schemes (new)

Deerawan-cloudy now has blue and green colors. Both of these colors are so beautiful and awesome.

Two Color Schemes, blue and green

Threaded Comments (new)

This feature is available now in deerawan-cloudy

Threaded comments

Theme Options (new)

Theme options will allow you to configure your adsense code, feedburner, facebook and twitter address.

Theme Options

Multilevel Dropdown menu (new)

You can add sub menu from your parent menu. You will see nice effect when you hover on parent menu.

Dropdown Menu

Go to top (new)

It is a helpful feature for visitors who want to go back to top.

Twitter, Facebook, Feedburner (new)

Now, you can add your twitter, facebook and feedburner address. It can be configured via theme options.

Adsense Ready

Deerawan-cloudy doesn’t support adsense in post anymore but you can still have four locations where you can add your adsense. You can put adsense in header, in first sidebar, in second sidebar and in middle (between post and comment).

Adsense

Widget Ready

Yup, you can still widgetize this theme.

Widget Ready

Tested running on IE6-IE8, Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox

Deerawan-cloudy is cross browser themes and support minimum resolution 1024×768.

Thank you

I hope you can enjoy and happy using my theme.
Any suggestions or questions, please feel free to ask me.
Appreciate my theme by do not remove the attribution links in the theme footer.

Download Deerawan-Cloudy 1.4 WordPress Theme

You can also buy me a starbucks coffee via paypal. Thank you very much.

Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4

deerawan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:36:17 +0000

Hello everybody, finally, I’ve successfully upgraded my wordpress 2.6.3 to wordpress 2.8.4. Wow, this is my first time experience doing this. Before doing it, I tried to find some good tutorials about it. I found a good one from wordpress.org. Check it out!

Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4 tutorial

Good luck for anyone who want to upgrade to wordpress 2.8.4

Free WordPress Theme: Deerawan – Cloudy

deerawan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:25:38 +0000

Hello friends,

I recently updated my wordpress theme, deerawan-cloudy. It is already version 1.4.2 at a moment. You will be amazed with lot of features that come with it. Lets see

Three Color Schemes (new)

Deerawan-cloudy now has included beautiful brown color scheme. Others are amazing blue and awesome green.

Two Color Schemes, blue and green

Cufon Text Replacement (new)

It support Cufon to make the fonts look smoother and look amazing for your website.

Cufon Text Replacement

Custom Header Logo (new)

Wow! Now you can replace your blog title with your own image logo. You can configure it in Theme Options.

Custom Header Logo Theme Options

Threaded Comments

This feature is available now in deerawan-cloudy

Threaded comments

Theme Options

Theme options will allow you to configure your adsense code, feedburner, facebook and twitter address.

Theme Options

Multilevel Dropdown menu (new)

You can add sub menu from your parent menu. You will see nice effect when you hover on parent menu.

Dropdown Menu

Go to top (new)

It is a helpful feature for visitors who want to go back to top.

Twitter, Facebook, Feedburner (new)

Now, you can add your twitter, facebook and feedburner address. It can be configured via theme options.

Adsense Ready

Adsense

Widget Ready

Yup, you can still widgetize this theme.

Widget Ready

Tested running on IE6-IE8, Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox

Deerawan-cloudy is cross browser themes and support minimum resolution 1024×768.

Thank you

I hope you can enjoy and happy using my theme.
Any suggestions or questions, please feel free to ask me.
Appreciate my theme by not removing the attribution links in the theme footer.

Download Deerawan-Cloudy 1.4 WordPress Theme For WordPress 2.9

For wordpress 3.x.x you can download my new theme deerawan-cloudy 1.4.6. It is still in release candidate but it works

Download New Deerawan-Cloudy 1.4.6 WordPress Theme

You can also buy me a starbucks coffee via paypal. Thank you very much.